Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Social media has become a bullhorn for top sales influencers, and these easy-to-use (not to mention, free) platforms are something you should absolutely be active on in order to stay current in your sales strategy and become a sales influencer yourself. So, if you’re looking for inspiration, Kyle is definitely someone to follow.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

So, if you want to persuade your buyers to act in your favor, you need your content to stick in their minds?—?you A psychological concept called the “Forgetting Curve” suggests that people lose information over time when they make no effort to retain it. It’s called the Prospective Memory Model. No rewards, no action.

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Smart Calling

JUNE 22, 2020

Upon examination of their methods, processes, and beliefs I often can spot mistakes being made due to belief in one—or many—of the cold calling myths that still are being perpetuated. I’ve list them, along with the Smart Calling truths. Cold Calling Myth: “It’s just a numbers game.”. I prefer to call them “assistants.”

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2012

Tony Zambito recently wrote a compelling article about the need to inform the buyer. What if the buyer isn’t buying from your company, even if they are informed? In spite of this, what if the buyer awarded their business to a competitor because your product simply isn’t good enough? The buyer knows why. They read reviews.

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Bernadette McClelland

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Who needs to change – buyer or seller? And I wonder if you are being told to work harder, make more calls, try different tactical approaches, manipulative tricks and even lower your price to get the business. Who has noticed that the sales landscape is changing at an accelerated pace and has no intention of slowing down?

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Corporate Visions

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The post Are Buyer Personas Sabotaging Your Sales? One of the most popular “best practices” in B2B sales and marketing is to create buyer personas. Typical buyer personas include a character sheet full of your prospects’ demographics, challenges, goals, and KPIs. Buyer Personas Don’t Create Urgency to Change.

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Similar to the 2023 hurricanes, B2B salespeople take one of five paths: They reach out directly to the Decision Maker They settle for someone who reports directly to the Decision Maker They settle for someone who has influence over the Decision Maker They call on Procurement They call on a business user.

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Vengreso

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Sales has changed for one primary reason: the buyer is in control. Sales Has Changed For One Primary Reason: The Buyer Is In Control. When and if we (the buyer) ever connect with a salesperson, WE are the one with the advantage because we know almost everything about them (the seller) and they know very little about us.

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SugarCRM

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

This raises a new challenge to marketers—when and how do they reach out to prospects with an authentic message to influence their buying decisions? . Your visitors’ actions get pushed back to your CRM CRM to provide sales with in-depth knowledge of their buying experience. A wide variety of distractions disorients today’s buyers.

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SBI

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

What turns ordinary people into Buyers from Hell is that they don’t wake up one day and say, “I know the exact extent of my challenges, who I should talk with, and what I need to know in order to solve them.” For those of you whose job it is to contact potential buyers before getting an explicit invitation beware!

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 19, 2022

Today, on the show, we’ve got Shruti Kapoor, co-founder and CEO of a company called Wingman. We bring in insights from different types of sales interactions across calls, emails, video meetings. I started the company almost four years back now. About Shruti Kapoor and Wingman [4:58]. Sam Jacobs: Hey, everybody.

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Score More Sales

MARCH 14, 2012

Before you make in-person or phone contact, decide what you and the buyer (prospect) are going to do next. Set a time to get back in contact and specify when (date and time), what are you going to talk about, how (phone, in-person), and the purpose. Next actions are the fuel by which a seller can encourage a buyer to move forward.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 15, 2019

Buyers make decisions the same way – the price, the functionality, the value they get back, and the recommendations from their peers.”. Martin , DiscoverOrg surveyed 350+ B2B buyers, and we put this question to the test: Are there differences selling B2B solutions to women and men? Who prefers a phone call?

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 22, 2018

Know "who" your buyer is. Trish Bertuzzi (TB) : Don't spend prime selling time figuring out who to call and how to call them. JK : The more time you spend here, the better off you'll be when you connect with a buyer. TB : Create a pre-call plan for every contact. TB : Create a pre-call plan for every contact.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 4, 2023

For instance, let‘s say you’re selling call-tracking software, and you‘re on your way to closing a startup that has struggled with converting cold calls. Instead, you need to come from a place like, “Your current cold calling strategy is under-informed. Better understand your buyer's company's priorities. Go negative.

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MTD Sales Training

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

In Part One of this series, we identified a reason why your buyers make decisions, either by moving away from a painful scenario or by moving toward a beneficial one. In this section, we look at another way your buyers decide. Buyers make decisions based on a series of criteria that makes sense to them. Happy Selling!

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SBI Growth

MARCH 3, 2014

Their average buyer has little knowledge of his company''s full capabilities in each market. The Sales Leader realized his buyer had changed. Their buyers are performing more research online to educate themselves. He understood conventional prospecting methods weren’t aligned to buyer behavior. The Approach.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Dr. Robert Cialdini, “The Godfather of Influence” (and on our list of the best sales books ), is best known for his 1984 book, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion. As Dr. Cialdini says here , “Simply put, people are obliged to give back to others in the form of a behavior, gift, or service that they have received first.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 16, 2013

A few months back I wrote a post about becoming an Agile Sales Leader. Right now buyer behavior is outpacing sales organizations. This is leading to frustration among many B2B buyers. Buyers have been trained to expect speed, availability, and a self-directed buying experience. In this post we will discuss Agile Sales.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 14, 2020

Assuming your target buyer was one of these commuters, what are they thinking about while in routine traffic? Many sellers only deal with buyers already in Decision mode. Many sales organizations exclusively compete for and capture these buyers. into the hopper and ferret out that small percentage of ready buyers.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 16, 2017

As with many elements of sales that are more subjective in nature, how effective we are will be influenced by personalities, and how you approach things. A simple example is one used by many in prospecting into companies they have not dealt with before, ya, cold calling. Prospect: yes, Seller: I am hoping you can help me.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Said the Cold Call To The Socialite. Then I remembered that in sales we see this all the time, over and over, people are trying to kill cold calling. Then I remembered that in sales we see this all the time, over and over, people are trying to kill cold calling. Step back you don’t wanna get any on your shoes). .

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 26, 2018

It’s called buying by committee. Now, imagine if you could influence that complex internal buying journey much earlier - reaching everyone who could influence your project. It’s a good question and raises the point of the bane of every sales and marketing person’s existence: the anonymous buyers.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 27, 2021

And a discovery call “best practice” that actually tanks your success rates. To help you get the most out of your year end, I pulled together the 5 best data-backed tips of 2021. . You’ve been told that it’s a bad call — but how bad, exactly? It might be obvious, like your buyer asking for a lower price.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 4, 2023

AI can measure buyer intent and motivation. Buyer intent looks at a constellation of activity, including website interactions, content engagement, and email activity," Victor Antonio , author, speaker, and host of the Sales Influence Podcast , told me. How AI Can Help You Better Understand Your Prospects 1.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 18, 2021

You’ve just had a great discovery call with a qualified prospect. You’ve both agreed to meet next week for a demo, and your champion has agreed to invite the economic buyer to the call. We’ll look at each point below, and then provide a post-call email template that you can use after my discovery calls.

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Score More Sales

AUGUST 18, 2014

It is human nature for sales professionals to say more than they need to when talking with clients and potential buyers. Take notes so you don’t forget details of what they said – not doing this can come back to haunt you later. Consider instead, working to say more with less in your messaging. Can you do it?

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The Pipeline

JULY 10, 2018

Something they discovered when they stepped back looked at their business, talked to existing and potential customers, all of which influenced the price increase. Notable fact: new customers not aware if the old pricing, did not push back on the new pricing other than the ritualistic prerequisite need to bargain no matter what.

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

I wanted to know if there was some unknown factor that had influenced my decision. And I kept coming back to one thing: the winning rep sold with video. Then we analyze how seller and buyer actions impact success rates. Let’s dig into how you can use this remote selling advantage on your next call.

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Score More Sales

APRIL 21, 2014

Remembering Pamela Paul’s New York Times article, Don’t Call Me I Won’t Call You back in 2011, it garnered 468 reader’s comments. Reaching Buyers When You Need To: Some buyers will not reply to an email but they will answer their phone. I say, what’s wrong with using the telephone?

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MTD Sales Training

JULY 9, 2019

Calling a dozen times doesn’t change the underlying dynamic that is causing your prospect not to see you. By condemning the buyer as a fool for not seeing you is counterproductive and leads to your attitude being one of constriction and lack of advancement. 4) Call at different times of the day. They will pass the message on.

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Gong.io

JULY 5, 2022

B2B sales teams use the funnel model to determine how best to engage with a given prospective customer, and to understand what types of questions to ask and information to provide in order to progress that buyer through the funnel. A given buyer might not necessarily move linearly along this pathway. Consideration. Evaluation.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 28, 2023

Before you ever pick up the phone for prospecting , you have to determine whether the person you’re calling fits your ideal prospect profile. That starts with you understanding your company‘s value offering like the back of your hand. You have to gather quite a bit of information to determine whether a prospect fits your buyer persona.

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Score More Sales

MAY 20, 2013

This idea has impacted me and hundreds of individual contributors making calls from that day forward whom I’ve had the pleasure to train and coach. Some sellers call and call and don’t leave voice mail. This makes the call warm, and more likely to catch your buyer’s attention.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 26, 2023

So if you want to thrive in the ever-changing, AI-influenced sales landscape, you're going to exhibit some key traits and abilities. The Readiness to Brace for the Best-Informed Buyers Ever Even in the days just before generative AI came into the picture, buyers were coming into sales engagements armed with extensive product knowledge.

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Banking Influencer Forecasting Resources 87

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The flowering of virtual sales channels and tools flies in the face of four myths, as documented by Bain & Company’s recent survey, conducted with Dynata, of more than 300 B2B buyers and sellers in the US, UK and Canada. Myth 1: Field sales reps sell primarily in person. The salient question now becomes, what cannot be sold virtually?

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Score More Sales

DECEMBER 2, 2013

You can determine this in a pretty simple manner – are you leaving voice mail messages for the right prospective buyers but getting no replies? No return calls on voice mail messages? Do you send out e-mail messages to potential buyers and NEVER get a reply other than, “we’re all set?”

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